Authors

David E. Hardy
Stephen G. Katsinas

Patterns in Student Financial Aid at Rural Community Colleges

Abstract

This article uses the 2005 Basic Classifications of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a framing device through which to examine patterns of student financial aid at America's rural community colleges, which represent 64% of all U.S. community colleges. Rural community colleges serve more first-time, full-time students than suburban and urban community colleges, and their 3.2 million students have different patterns of student financial aid. Rural small and medium colleges have the most aided students, receive more Pell Grants and institutional aid, and have more students incurring loan indebtedness than do other types of community colleges. The article offers recommendations for future research, as well as for policy development and practice.

Recommended Citation

Hardy, David E. and Katsinas, Stephen G. (2008) "Patterns in Student Financial Aid at Rural Community Colleges," Journal of Student Financial Aid: Vol. 38 : Iss. 1 , Article 3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55504/0884-9153.1036
Available at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/jsfa/vol38/iss1/3